SubProject No. 1
What is Poetry?

SubProject No. 2
Poetry Vocabulary

SubProject No. 3         Poetic Devices

SubProject No. 4
The Rhyme Scheme

SubProject No. 5
Kinds of Poetry

SubProject No. 6
Practice Activities

SubProject No. 7
Versakids

SubProject No. 8
Local Poets in GFW

SubProject No. 9
Newfoundland Poets

SubProject No. 10
Poet Biography Page

SubProject No. 11
Kidz Poetry Page

SubProject No. 12
Fun Poetry Activities

Opening Page

The following is a list of common vocabulary used to enhance the study of poetry in your classroom:

• ALLITERATION: The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
• ANTONYM: words that are opposite in meaning
• ASSONANCE: The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry.
• BLANK VERSE: A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
• CONNOTATION: The personal or emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond its
  dictionary meaning.
• DENOTATION: The dictionary meaning of a word.
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: A form of language use in which writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words. (E.g. hyperbole, metaphor, and simile)
• FORM: the arrangement, manner or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, couplet, limerick, haiku...
• FREE VERSE: Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
• HOMONYM: Two or more distinct words with the same pronunciation and spelling but with different meanings
• HOMOPHONE: two or more words with the same pronunciation but with different meanings and spellings.
• HYPERBOLE: an exaggeration of the truth
• IMAGE: A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea.
• IMAGERY: Figurative language used to create particular mental images
• METAPHOR: an association of two completely different objects as being the same thing
• METER: The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
• RHYME: The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
• RHYTHM: The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
• SETTING: The time and place of a literary work that establishes its context.
• SIMILE: A figure of speech invoking a comparison between unlike things using "like," "as," or "as though."
• STRUCTURE: The design or form of a literary work.
• SYMBOL: An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
• SYNONYM: One of two or more words that have the same or nearly the same meanings.
• TONE: The implied attitude of a writer (or speaker) toward the subject and characters of a work.